I thought Andersonville was a Confederate facility.
It was. The difference is that Union soldiers starved because the south had nothing to feed them, or supplies to give them.
Yankee Camps like Camp Douglas, or Rock Island deliberately withheld rations, and blankets due to revenge, etc.
You are addressing a guy who tried to claim Grant was a heroin addict among other insanities. Lots of luck.
at those DAMNyankee hellholes. the GOAL of those "northern confinement facilities" was to TORTURE, ASSAULT,DEGRADE, MAIM & KILL.
NO other possible explanation for the treatment of that many THOUSAND prisoners is believable.
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every time it rains hard down there, the Chief Ranger tells me they find more bones/skulls. there is a whole storage room full, packed in crates to the ceiling.
one day when i was there for a ceremony, an interviewer from the Washington Post asked the speaker, "Why do you tell lies about the lincoln administration". the speaker (an Episcopal priest) said, "Come & see" and took the young man to the storage facility. the "interview" ENDED "suddenly", when the interviewer went away in tears.
one of our members wife is a survivor of Dachau. she described Point Lookout as "the same sort of place as that, which i was in".
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